While investigating some “wifi is slow” and “wifi is dropping” complaints, we noticed deauth/disassociation flooding attacks reported by our wireless IDS. So far I’ve been able to identity a small percentage of these as local businesses and other local (non-university affiliated) organizations. What strikes me as odd is that a lot of the MAC OUIs from offending devices appear to be consumer grade wireless devices (Belken, Netgear, eero, etc.). I’d love to get a hold of one of these devices and look at its settings to see how it’s configured. I’m not a lawyer, but I think this falls under regulation 47 U.S. Code § 333.
Besides filing a complaint with the FCC, I’m wondering if any of you have experienced this on your campuses, and if so, how you’ve gone about dealing with it. I’m afraid asking the business nicely would just result in a blank stare, as they would not likely understand the nature of the complaint, or what their wireless is actually doing. §333. Willful or malicious interference No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this chapter or operated by the United States Government. (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, §333, as added Pub. L. 101–396, §9, Sept. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 850.) Thanks, ----------------------------------- Eric Kenny Network Architect Harvard University IT ----------------------------------- ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.